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I thought the US economy was bad...haha, but seriously...congrats on those who got in on the 7970s. Can't wait to see some crossfire numbers.

I have a Mitsubishi 73" that I'd like to try this on. Any problems with it?

My 73" Mitsubishi is nice, but I'm waiting for the 92" to come down to 2000 before upgrading

From the reviews, the extra OC ability combined with the excellent cooling design, you can get up to the GTX 580 speeds for a lot less money. Too bad they don't make a 2GB version. 1.25GB doesn't enough for BF3 @ 2560x1440

Gigabyte GTX 570 SoC version. Excellent overclocking ability. Efficient cooling design. Can get almost to stock GTX 580 for much less.

There's a deal on for MSI 6950 TwinFrozer for 199.99...one of the two best 6950 cards out there. IMO. Excellent design.

@ MacLeod I agree with you on the pricing of GTX 580 and 7970 pricing. It should scale with performance rather than saying the bragging rights "I HAVE THE TOP CARD" at $500.

3-4 years? not likely. more like 1-2years. I recently jump from a GTX 260 -> 6970. Took a while for me to pull the trigger on upgrading because there weren't any "WOW" games until BF3 came out. 6970 will be for another 1-2 years. I don't like the 7970 spec. Didn't see anything that would...

It's been a while, but are the battleships still usable in terms of using the guns and moving it closer to land?

Maybe I should have paid a bit more for the Seasonic. They seem to have really good PSU.

The eXtreme Power Supply calculator is pretty neat. The calculated minimum PSU is 427w, but recommends a 476w. I'm not sure how accurate the calculation is, but let's hope for the best with the Rosewill 650W.

CPU: 2500K @ 4.5 OC Cooler: Cosair H60 The PSU is about 2 months old from NewEgg. Based on the reviews, it was the best MODULAR PSU for the price.

74c is perfectly acceptable. Above 85c and that's get me nervous.

Actually, it's a 650W PSU. I somehow thought it was a 620W. Below are the specs: Rosewill HIVE Series HIVE-650 650W Continuous @40°C, 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified, Modular Design, Single +12V Rail, ATX12V v2.31/EPS12V v2.92, SLI Ready, CrossFire Ready, Active-PFC Power Supply

The recommended PSU is 650, but I have a 620. Anyone out there have a lower PSU than the recommended? Like the card, but don't have extra dough to upgrade the PSU.

I agree. Was a MW for a long time, but when I saw how MW3 looked when compared to BF3 I switched. MW graphics have not been updated with each release. I can believe they release such garbage and everyone (including me) bought it.

xAlex79, with such a beast of a PC spec, why do you only have 8GB of RAM?

At the $150 range is 6870 if you can get lucky, but the 6850 will do as well. Good luck.

My temps are running ~51C on idle and ~75C at full load on BF3 on 6950 bios w/ shader unlocked. It maybe the core not liking the overclocks because it the core can't do anything above 865 w/o it locking up on the 6950 bios. There's really no point of flashing to 6970 bios (880/1375) if it...

The card has a dual bios switch so I attempted to unlock the potential of this beast. Step 1. Unlock the shaders. Result: Done Step 2. Flash 6950 to 6970 bios. Result: Done (sort of). The flash went okay and GPU-Z identifies it as a 6970 w/ correct core and ram spees, but the card isn't...

I am using ATI CCC and my Asus DirectCU II 6950 is ~ 50c at idle and 75c at full. Default fan speed used. 12% at idle and 25% at full. Not very noticeable at all. Seems my temps are a lot higher than yours...uggg.

If you wait, you'll never buy anything. Just pull the trigger and buy the damn 580s. There will always be a market for 580s even after the R7xxx/N6xx comes out. Personally, 2x 570s would be my choice.

Thanks, I'll give them a shot.

I don't think my one 6970 can handle good FPS games w/ 3 x 24" Eyefinity setup. *Sigh* Maybe someone has better experience w/ games on 1xGPU Eyefinity setup?

Why is IPS not good for FPS games? ms too high?

@jonneymendoza .. i wonder how many pcs you can water cool with that setup. LoL...awesome

Your temps seems rather high on a 212+. I have a similar experience with the 2500K. First installation, 2500K @ 4.3Ghz, idle was 39c and prime95 was around 92c in 30mins. Took the h/s off and made sure every inch of the cpu was covered with Artic Silver 5. On the second run, idle @ 33c and...

Agreed on 2. Agreed on 3. The Hyper 212+ is probably the best price/performance for air coolers. Agreed on 4. 2500K avg overclock is 4.3Ghz w/o any voltage increase. 4.5 if you get a lucky CPU.

MicroCenter is so much better than the dorks at Bad Buy or Fry

that's the reason why i stay from XFX = Xtremely Fustrating Xperience EVGA for me...

gtx 460 is the equivalent

@Kuurus Agreed

I have the Voodoo card with 2 gpu's on it. It's somewhere in the garage...it's was amazing to see that big ass video card. My brother has the higher end one...think he bought it at a garage sale. hahaha

I finally got my gig together and didn't want to run cables for surround sound. A sub and soundbar seems like a match. The onboard can do 7.1 (I think or at least 5.1), how would you connect it to the soundbar? Any suggestion for a decent one? ~$200?

is that the best technology out there for monitors? IPS?

i have e7200 @ 3.4 w/ gtx 216 and it can barely go at 1400x900 on medium...sad.

now that's some service. what happens if one of your 6870 dies? will they upgrade to 6950? :)

For the triple setup, do you simply take the power requirment and times it by 3? I.E. 200w x 3 = 600 w (minimum). Is there any other thing to consider?

I recently had the same problem as you did. My rig was getting lower scores that it should be in 3dMark 01/03. I couldn't figure out the problem. I went throught all the procedures mentioned above and still nothing. I went back to Fry's and bought a 2nd motherboard, psu, ram, and video card...

The Windows 2000 AS box is used to host accounting software, norton antivirus scanning, and file server. The box is so slow (pii 333 512MB) and when 15 users the the server are either opening up excel worksheets, running quick books, or any other thing, the workstations take forever to...